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"Happy Caregiver Exploitation Day": An Essay by Elvira Basevich (Keywords: Motherhood; Upward Mobility; Reproductive Rights; Injustice; Identity; Rousseau)
"I want to be able to condemn the structural conditions of my exploitation without condemning the person I ended up becoming as a result."
Elvira Basevich
10 min read


"Transcendental Pessimism": An Essay by Ignacio L. Moya (Keywords: Metaphysics; Anti-natalism; Psychology; Schopenhauer; German Philosophy; History of Philosophy)
"if philosophical pessimism is to be seen as something more than a 'mere' temperament or attitude, what might this be?"
Ignacio L. Moya
12 min read


"Possibility": An Essay by William M. Paris (Keywords: Critical Philosophy; Freedom; Intersubjectivity; Utopia)
"When the category of possibility is in crisis, the intelligibility of collective action and cooperative life will be imperilled"
William M. Paris
11 min read


"Questioning our Need for Punishment": Henrique Carvalho and Anastasia Chamberlen (Keywords: Justice; Hostile Solidarity; Public Philosophy; Sociology; Durkheim)
"We can perhaps summarise the philosophical problem of contemporary punishment outlined above as: it doesn’t work, and yet we need it."
Henrique Carvalho and Anastasia Chamberlen
13 min read


"A Different Dream of Labour": Deryn Thomas reviews "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle (Keywords: Public Philosophy; Post-Work; Simone Weil; Hannah Arendt)
"The momentum of the pandemic has facilitated an important shift in the way many people think about wage labour, employment, and capitalism"
Deryn Thomas
15 min read


"Released from Prison?": Contributions from the Reimagining Re-entry Public Philosophy Group (Keywords: Punishment; Phenomenology; Home; Institutionalization; Education; Power)
"Home is our anchor point within reality which gives us orientation and allows us to set out in new directions."


"Global": An Essay by Yoko Arisaka (Keywords: History of Philosophy; The Canon; Language; Eurocentrism)
"Our non-global conception of philosophy is rather a latecomer, while still establishing itself as the history of philosophy."
Yoko Arisaka
8 min read


"Polarization and Talking Across Difference": Elizabeth Anderson in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou (Keywords: Democracy; Populism; Reparations; Pragmatism; John Dewey; Susan Neiman)
"Everything has been sorted and segregated so that people of different political parties have no opportunities to engage one another."
Elizabeth Anderson and Alexis Papazoglou
14 min read


"The Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy" a conversation with Andrew Bowie (Keywords: Art; Language; Meaning; Epistemology; Modernity)
"If you think of meaning simply in semantic, verbal terms, you’re missing out much of what goes on in language."
Andrew Bowie
10 min read


"The Value of Philosophy in a Market-Driven World": An Essay by Hossein Dabbagh (Keywords: Education; Humanities; Neoliberalism; Ethics; Critical Thinking; Social Justice)
"The emphasis on immediate economic returns overlooks the long-term societal benefits of a populace well-versed in philosophical reasoning"
Hossein Dabbagh
8 min read


"Circling Back to the University: Public Philosophy and Pedagogy in the 21st Century": An Essay by Aaron James Wendland (Keywords: Academia; Ethics; Ukraine War; Emmanuel Levinas)
"The dialectical link between our scholarly and civic activities implies that the future of public philosophy lies in the universities."
Aaron James Wendland
8 min read


"Ideology": An essay by Jason Blakely (Keywords: Politics; History; Culture; Scientism; Hermeneutics; Neoliberalism; Karl Marx; Clifford Geertz)
"When someone is lost in ideology, their politics appears natural, even scientific, and not historical and cultural."
Jason Blakely
10 min read
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